"Magitek," Cid says with a proud little smile. "Technology powered by ceruleum. It's fuel made from a combustible, naturally occurring substance that overtime absorbs the ambient aether in the pools it's drilled from."

He gives the barest explanation of airships, trying to avoid getting too technical. The gist is that he took a tool of war and turned it into something peaceful, and even with their worlds gone he's still proud of this fact.